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Text Message Prices

June 17, 2009

Recently, the Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights Subcommitee examined the state of competition in the cell phone industry.
Senator Kohl stated that “[f]rom 2006 to 2008, the price of sending and receiving a text message among the four largest cell phone carriers increased by 100% from 10 to 20 cents per message” even though “the [...]

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Top 10 Funniest Lines from the Latest Apple Lawsuit

January 15, 2008

“Unlike most Internet sites, Music Store is accessed with proprietary Apple software, rather than a Web browser.”
Talk about a meaningless distinction. Safari is proprietary Apple software. Internet Explorer is proprietary Microsoft software. Go Firefox?

“The ‘Online Music market’ is defined as the market for digital music delivered to the consumer by way of [...]

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BeOS is Better than Windows

September 15, 2007

From the Complaint filed in Daisy Mountain Fire District v. Microsoft Corporation:
Software companies offering superior operating systems and/or lower prices (namely, companies such as Digital Research, Inc. (”DRI”), International Business Machines (”IBM”), and Be, Inc.) were not able to compete with Microsoft because of Microsoft’s unlawful conduct.
C’mon. You can’t be serious. I’m no [...]

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